Chance the Rapper has revealed that saying no to Kanye West when he offered to sign him was really hard. 

During an interview with ABC, he explained that the toughest thing about retaining his independence as an artist was turning down Kanye West's offer to sign him:

"It's not easy at all. Definitely not - telling Kanye no. It's definitely hard keeping that resistance, but I want to teach people that it's doable."

He went onto add that trying to find his feet without any support was incredibly challenging, but he thought it was important because it would show the world that it could be done:

"I wanted to give the idea of freedom back to artists and one of the biggest things is control over how you release your music. So streaming and free releases, I figured that that would be a good beacon to have people at least pick up on what I was doing as an independent artist."

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